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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: It's Alive! Xeon W-1270P Has Booted!
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:22:07 -0500
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On 2/15/25 15:18, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 2/15/25 11:15 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
>> My fantastic Xeon W-1270P machine has finally booted.
>>
>> {deleted:  saga of five weeks of unproductive WIP }
>>
> 
> 
> My Xeon machine still crashes when I install linux mint on it. It gets 
> installed each time, no problems there, but about one minute into using 
> the computer it freezes and screen, computer, keyboard, everything 
> becomes non-responsive.
> 
> If yours hasn't crashed, then either your cpu is an improved one, or 
> there's something about mint that messes mine up.

Sounds like one needs to do a backup, wipe & reinstall to troubleshoot.


> When I acquire the knowledge to carefully install gentoo on my Xeon 
> machine, I'll see whether linux can be used with it or not.

Or there's MS-Windows, of course /s


-hh